TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hewitt,Catherine
TI  - Art is a tyrant: the unconventional life of Rosa Bonheur 
SN  - 1785786210
AV  - ND553 .B6 H49 2020
U1  - 759.4 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - London
PB  - Icon Books Ltd
KW  - Bonheur, Rosa,
KW  - Gay artists
KW  - France
KW  - Biography
KW  - Painters
KW  - Women artists
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - In 19th-century France, Rose Bonheur was utterly unique. An artist whose unparalleled animal portraits and scenes of rural life brought her international success and critical acclaim, here was a woman who shunned feminine pursuits, who brazenly wore trousers, whose most intimate relationships were with other women, and whose home constituted a menagerie where visitors might find anything from lions to polar bears. Made Chevalier, then Officer de la Légion d'Honneur for the arts - France's highest order of civilian merit - Rosa's reputation seemed assured. But her happiness in later years was interrupted by tragedy before her artistic legacy gradually faded. Biographer Catherine Hewitt examines anew the life and career of a true one-off
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